{"id":4112400,"url":"https://alion.io/job/leidos-software-engineer-ai-autonomy-and-platform-development","title":"Software Engineer- AI, Autonomy and Platform Development","company":{"id":7791,"name":"Leidos","domain":"leidos.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/leidos","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":77,"open_postings":326,"ghost_share":0.006,"stale_share":0.905,"repost_share":0.012,"time_to_fill_p50_days":27,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reston, United States","Huntsville, United States","San Diego, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":107900,"max":195050,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":195050},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"SBOM","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Checkmarx","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"Fortify","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"Linux","optional":true},{"name":"LLM Evaluation","optional":true},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"ROS","optional":true},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":true},{"name":"SonarQube","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T18:32:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Software Engineer - AI, Autonomy & Platform Development\nOverview\nThe Leidos Office of Technology is seeking Software Engineers with AI and autonomy experience to help build a common technology platform.\nIn this role, you will design, build, and operate production software for AI-driven and autonomous systems. You will work in small, accountable build-and-run teams, using modern AI-assisted development practices to ship faster and at higher quality. Your work will support national security and other critical missions where reliability, security, and human oversight matter.\nLocation: The ideal candidate will be based in Northern Virginia or near another Leidos facility, such as Huntsville, AL, or San Diego, CA. Onsite work at a Leidos facility is required as business needs dictate.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and build AI agents and reasoning services, including LLM-based agents, planning, and inference, with human oversight, auditability, and fail-safe behavior built in.\nDevelop autonomy software and integrate it with sensors, platforms, and hardware across edge and cloud environments.\nDesign and develop platform software, including APIs and SDKs, data and knowledge services, and user-facing applications.\nPackage components as reusable, secure, well-documented assets that others can adopt without rework.\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release evidence (SBOM, provenance, signing) that support secure release and deployment.\nOwn what you build in production, including observability, reliability, and incident response.\nContribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and technical-debt reduction across the platform.\nCollaborate with program teams and architects to turn customer needs into repeatable capabilities.\nUse AI-assisted development tools (coding assistants, agentic workflows, automated review and test generation) in daily engineering, and help teams adopt them effectively and responsibly.\nHelp evaluate emerging AI, autonomy, and developer-productivity technologies, and scale what works.\nBasic Qualifications\nWe are hiring software engineers at all levels, from junior through senior, with opportunities tailored to individual experience and expertise in AI-enabled software development.\nAt the early career level, the ideal candidate would have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, combined with 4+ years of experience. (Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.)\nAt the mid level, the ideal candidate would have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, combined with 8+ years of experience. (Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.)\nAt the senior level, the ideal candidate would have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, combined with 12+ years of experience. (Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.)\nHands-on software development experience in one or more modern languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Java, Go, or TypeScript.\nExperience (professional, academic, or personal projects) building AI/ML-enabled or autonomous systems, such as LLM agents, robotics, perception, planning, or sensor-driven software.\nWorking knowledge of Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or comparable) and the ability to quickly adopt new tools.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in small, cross-functional teams.\nU.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building AI/ML-enabled systems, including LLM agents, agent frameworks, evaluation harnesses, or retrieval and data pipelines.\nExperience with autonomy or robotics software, including perception, planning, control, sensor fusion, simulation, ROS 2, or DDS.\nExperience with edge and embedded systems, real-time or deterministic software, Linux and real-time operating systems, or GPU/accelerator programming.\nExperience designing APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms, including extensible component architectures, developer experience, platform engineering, or software modernization.\nExperience with cloud and container technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud; Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code.\nFamiliarity with secure software supply chain practices, static analysis, and security scanning tools (e.g., SonarQube, Fortify, Checkmarx).\nUnderstanding of responsible AI practices for assured autonomy, including human-in-the-loop control, audit trails, and IP and data-handling considerations in AI-assisted development.\nBackground supporting federal, defense, intelligence, or homeland security missions, and an active Top Secret clearance.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nNovember 10, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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